CV
Born 1970, Elkhart, IN
Lives and works in Portland, OR
Represented by Nationale
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
The Book of Love, Nationale, upcoming October 2024
They Always Have, and Still Do, Nationale, Portland, OR, 2023
Me and You and You and Me, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR, 2023
Blush, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR, 2021
Yes Please Thank You, Melanie Flood Projects, Portland, OR, 2018
Amy Bay and Justyn Hegreberg, Snag Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2018
That Reminds Me (to nature the roof and the floor holding heart), BARDO-29, The House Museum, Gillams, Newfoundland, Canada, 2018
Wet Paint, with Joan Mellon, PLEAT Gallery, pleatgallery.com, 2016
Bramble, Artscapes, Spaceworks Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, 2011
land, sea, sky..., Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburg Branch, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Elevations, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY, 2002
Be Here Now, with Bellamy Printz, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2002
View: A Site Specific Project, Queens Theater in the Park, Flushing Meadows, NY, 2000
Floor, Galería Panorama, Barcelona, Spain, 1997
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
A Place Between, La Loma Projects Annex, Pasadena, CA 2024
Growth, The Luminary, Saint Louis, MO, 2024
Life, Still (Vida, Todavía), Casa Santa Ana, Panama City, Panama, 2024
Super-Natural, Oregon State University, President’s Residence, Corvalis, OR, 2023
Edition 13, Cygnet’s Way, Kingston, NY, 2023
2023 Art Invitational, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2023
Homemaker, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA, 2023
It’s Personal, Nationale, Portland, OR, 2022
On the Verge of Recognition, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR, 2022
COALESCE, Stelo Arts, Portland, OR, 2021
hard & SOFT, Congress Yard Projects, Portland, OR, 2021
Eartha, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, 2020
Heathers, Rubus Discolor Project, Portland, OR, 2020
Plus One, Peep Space, Tarrytown, NY, 2020
Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2019
Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2018
The First Writing, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2018
Faculty Art Show, Helzer Gallery, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, 2017
artlikelifelike, UNA Gallery, Portland, OR, 2017
Newfoundland: Real and Imagined, BARDO-29, The House Museum, Gillams, Newfoundland, Canada, 2017
The Bedroom, T.W.A.T. Collective, Na Gallery, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea, 2017
The Bedroom, T.W.A.T. Collective, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2017
The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2016
ArtWorks NW Exhibit, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Roseburg, OR, 2016
Environs, Occasional Gallery, Burlington, WA, 2016
Salon Salon, The Portland 'Pataphysical Society, 2015
Somewhat Slightly, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Around Oregon, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, 2013
Street Art, Project Grow and The Gallery at Port City, Portland, OR, 2011
Inaugural Exhibition, Paula Lalala MVSEVM, The Guest Room, Corwallville, NY, 2011
Curators: Raising Humans, Buzzer Thirty, Long Island City, NY, 2010
Over Water, Nisus Gallery, Portland, OR, 2010
Four More Years, Buzzer Thirty, Astoria, NY, 2006
Inside/Out, The Garage, Jersey City, NJ, 2005
d.um.b.o. art under the bridge festival, d.um.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Look Closer…, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Street Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 2003
Projects ’02, with Oona Stern, The Carriage House at The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2002
Paper Remix, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY, 2002
Editions 2001, The Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, 2001
In Color, Museum at FIT, New York, NY, 2001
The Worst of Gordon Pym, continued..., Printed Matter, New York, NY, 2001
Chicago Printmaker's Collaborative: A Decade of Prints, Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Wish You Were Here, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
Line Up...Sequences and Scopes, Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, 1999
Apt., 268 Elizabeth Street, New York, NY, 1998
Artist in the Marketplace 18th Annual Exhibition, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 1998
Ground Control: Site-Specific Works, 95 Norman, Brooklyn, NY, 1998
MFA Exhibition, Winchester School of Art, Winchester, England, 1997
Foreign Affairs, Can Felipa, Art Public, Barcelona, Spain, 1997
Mysterious Worlds, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 1997
Views: Selections from the Lower East Side Printshop, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, 1997
Printed at the Lower East Side Printshop, La Mama La Galeria, New York, NY, 1995
Unknown Chicago, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, 1994
Books and Bookishness, DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1994
AWARDS
ARTXIV & FOREST FOR THE TREES, Seattle, WA - Hotel Westland Residency and Commission 2024
OREGON ARTS COMMISSION, Salem, OR - Individual Artist Fellowship, 2024
REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL, Portland, OR - Make|Learn|Build Grant, 2021
RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION AND NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, New York, NY - Rauschenberg Emergency Grant, 2020
STELO, Portland, OR - Papermaking Residency, 2019
REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL, Portland, OR - Professional Development Grant, 2017
FRANS MASEREEL CENTRUM, Kasterlee, Belgium - Residency, 2006
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP, New York, NY - Special Editions, 2001
ZYGOTE PRESS, Cleveland, OH - Residency, 2001
WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP, Rosendale, NY - 21 For 25 Grant, 1999
DIEU DONNÉ PAPERMILL, New York, NY - Residency, Workspace Program, 1998
THE BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS, Bronx, NY - Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, 1998
HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, ABRONS ARTS CENTER, New York, NY - Residency, 1997
EDUCATION
TURPS BANANA, London, England
Correspondence Course in Painting, 2017
WINCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, Barcelona, Spain and Winchester, England
Master of Fine Art, 1997
THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Fine Art, 1993
VISITING ARTIST
PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART, Portland, OR, 2019, 2018, 2024
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Portland, OR, 2018
PUBLIC ANNEX, Portland, OR 2017, 2018
PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Continuing Education, New York, NY, 2007
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, Blossom Program, Kent, OH, 2002
WINCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART, Barcelona, Spain, 2002
COLLECTIONS
Hotel Westland, Seattle, WA
Miller Meigs Collection, Portland, OR
Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
Public Art Collection, Portland, OR
PHILANTHROPY
Cascade AIDS Project Art Auction with Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2024
Ditch Projects 15yr Anniversary Auction, Eugene, OR, 2023
Oregon Contemporary’s 15th Annual Art First Artist’s Auction, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2022
Disjecta’s 12th Annual Auction, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, 2018
Soil's Exquisite Auction, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2018
Nasty Women, Killjoy Collective, Portland, OR, 2017
Disjecta 10th Annual Art Auction, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, 2016
Visual Aids 11th Annual Postcards From the Edge Benefit Exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY, 2009
Take Out Auction, Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY, 2003
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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